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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
David R. Brower
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David R. Brower
Age: 88 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 1
Died: 2000
Died: November 5
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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.
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You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.
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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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There is no business on a dead planet
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When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
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Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
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What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
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While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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